Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2019

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2019

Listing for 156 records from 2019 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A	Backxwash: *Deviancy* [Grimalkin] Carsie Blanton: *Buck Up* [Carsie Blanton] Danny Brown: *uknowwhatimsayin?* [Warp] Chance the Rapper: *The Big Day* [self-released] DJ Maphorisa X Kabza de Small: *Scorpion Kings* [BlaqBoy] Dry Cleaning: *Sweet Princess EP* [It's OK EP] Billie Eilish: *When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?* [Darkroom/Interscope] Kim Gordon: *No Home Record* [Matador] The Paranoid Style: *A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life* [Bar/None] Purple Mountains: *Purple Mountains* [Drag City] Selo i Ludy Performance Band: *Bunch One* [self-released] Kalie Shorr: *Open Book* [Kalie Shorr] Todd Snider: *Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3* [Aimless] Sonic Youth: *Battery Park, NYC: July 4th 2008* [Matador]
A-	Gyedu-Blay Ambolley: *11th Street, Sekondi* [Agogo] Big Thief: *Two Hands* [4AD] Big Thief: *U.F.O.F.* [4AD] Black Midi: *Schlagenheim* [Rough Trade] Mary J. Blige: *Herstory, Vol. 1* [Geffen] Lewis Capaldi: *Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent* [Capitol] Chai: *Punk* [Burger] Charly Bliss: *Young Enough* [Barsuk] Tyler Childers: *Country Squire* [RCA/Hickman Holler] Alex Chilton: *From Memphis to New Orleans* [Bar/None] Diabel Cissokho: *Rhythm of the Griot* [Kafou Music] Chuck Cleaver: *Send Aid* [Shake It] The Coathangers: *The Devil You Know* [Suicide Squeeze] Dave: *Psychodrama* [Neighbourhood] The Delines: *The Imperial* [Decor/El Cortez] Stella Donnelly: *Beware of the Dogs* [Secretly Canadian] Epic Beard Men: *This Was Supposed to Be Fun* [Strange Famous] Craig Finn: *I Need a New War* [Partisan] Ezra Furman: *Twelve Nudes* [Bella Union] Guiss Guiss Bou Bess: *Set Sela* [Helico] Kirby Heard: *Mama's Biscuits* [CDBaby] Jealous of the Birds: *Wisdom Teeth* [Atlantic] Salif Keita: *Un Autre Blanc* [Believe/Naive] Khalid: *Free Spirit* [RCA] Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: *Miri* [Out Here] Miranda Lambert: *Wildcard* [RCA] Jeffrey Lewis & the Voltage: *Bad Wiring* [Don Giovanni] Little Simz: *Grey Area* [Age 101] Lizzo: *Cuz I Love You* [Atlantic/Nice Life] Madonna: *Madame X* [Interscope] Malibu Ken: *Malibu Ken* [Rhymesayers] Mammoth Penguins: *There's No Fight We Can't Both Win* [Fika] Mannequin Pussy: *Patience* [Epitaph] Leyla McCalla: *Capitalist Blues* [PIAS America] Bob Mould: *Sunshine Rock* [Merge] The National: *I Am Easy to Find* [4AD] Youssou N'Dour: *History* [Naïve/Believe] 100 Gecs, Dylan Brady & Laura Les: *1000 gecs* [Dog Show] Pedro the Lion: *Phoenix* [Polyvinyl] Lee "Scratch" Perry: *Rainford* [On-U Sound] Priests: *The Seduction of Kansas* [Sister Polygon] Quelle Chris: *Guns* [Mello Music] Rapsody: *Eve* [Jamla/Roc Nation] Raphael Saadiq: *Jimmy Lee* [Columbia] Dua Saleh: *Nur (EP)* [Against Giants EP] The Seeds: *Pushin' Too Hard: Original Soundtrack* [GNP Crescendo/Big Beat] Derek Senn: *How Could a Man* [self-released] 75 Dollar Bill: *I Was Real* [Glitterbeat/Tak:til] Sleater-Kinney: *The Center Won't Hold* [Mom + Pop] Slowthai: *Nothing Great About Britain* [Method] Sneaks: *Highway Hypnosis* [Merge] Sudan Archives: *Athena* [Stones Throw] Taylor Swift: *Lover* [Republic] Tanya Tagaq: *Toothsayer* [Six Shooter EP] Rachid Taha: *Je Suis Africain* [Naïve/Believe] That Dog: *Old LP* [UMe] Rosie Tucker: *Never Not Never Not Never Not* [New Professor] Sharon Van Etten: *Remind Me Tomorrow* [Jagjaguwar] Young M.A: *Herstory in the Making* [M.A Music] *Holding Things Together: The Merle Haggard Songbook* [Ace]
B+	Amyl and the Sniffers: *Amyl and the Sniffers* [ATO] Big Star: *Live on WLIR* [Omnivore] Mal Blum: *Pity Boy* [Don Giovanni] Hayes Carll: *What It Is* [Dualtone] Dreezy: *Big Dreez* [Interscope] The Exbats: *E Is for Exbats* [Burger] Fontaines D.C.: *Dogrel* [Partisan] Robert Forster: *Inferno* [Tapete] The Highwomen: *The Highwomen* [Elektra] The Hold Steady: *Thrashing Thru the Passion* [Frenchkiss] Jon Langford & the Men of Gwent: *President of Wales* [Country Mile] Irene Mawela: *The Best of the SABC Years* [Umsakazo] The New Pornographers: *In the Morse Code of Brake Lights* [Concord] Pere Ubu: *The Long Goodbye* [Cherry Red] Amy Rigby: *A One Way Ticket to My Life* [Southern Domestic] Jason Ringenberg: *Stand Tall* [Courageous Chicken] Hama Sankare: *Niafunké* [Clermont Music] Ed Sheeran: *No. 6 Collaboration Project* [Asylum] Sonic Youth: *Live in Los Angeles 1998* [Bandcamp] Ebo Taylor: *Palaver* [Precision] Vampire Weekend: *Father of the Bride* [Columbia] Jamila Woods: *Legacy! Legacy!* [Jagjaguwar] Young Thug: *So Much Fun* [300 Entertainment/Atlantic]
*******	Kevin Abstract: *Arizona Baby* [Question Everything/RCA] Charlotte Adigéry: *Zandozi* [Deewee] Charly Bliss: *Supermoon* [Barsuk EP] Lana Del Rey: *Norman Fucking Rockwell!* [Interscope] Dry Cleaning: *Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks* [It's OK EP] El Khat: *Saadia Jefferson* [Batov] Martin Frawley: *Undone at 31* [Merge] Ghostface Killah: *Ghostface Killahs* [Music Generation Co.] Ariana Grande: *Thank U, Next* [Republic] Hickoids: *All the World's a Dressing Room: Live in L.A. 08.24.2018* [Saustex] The Hot 8 Brass Band: *On the Spot* [Tru Thoughts] Jumpstarted Plowhards: *Round One* [Recess] Jenny Lewis: *On the Line* [Warner Bros.] The Mekons: *Deserted* [Bloodshot] MIKE: *Tears of Joy* [10K] Old Man Saxon: *The Peacock Honey* [Old Man Saxon] Jay Som: *Anak Ko* [Polyvinyl] Westside Gunn: *Flygod Is an Awesome God* [Griselda] Wreckless Eric: *Transience* [Southern Domestic] *Blue Muse* [Music Maker Foundation] *Blue Muse* [Upon This Rock]
**	The Abjects: *Never Give Up* [Yippee Ki Yay] Bettern Oblivion Community Center: *Better Oblivion Community Center* [Dead Oceans] Pip Blom: *Boat* [PIAS/Heavenly] Control Top: *Covert Contracts* [Get Better] Steve Earle & the Dukes: *Guy* [New West] R.A.P. Ferreira: *The Truly Ancient and Original Lefthanded Styles of the Hoodwinkers and Penny Pinchers* [Ruby Yacht] Funkrust Brass Band: *Bones and Burning* [self-released EP] Tim Heidecker: *Another Year in Hell* [Jagjaguwar] Little Ann: *Detroit's Secret Soul* [Kent] MC Frontalot: *Net Split* [Level Up] Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire: *Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire* [Chocolate Rabbit] Nirvana: *Live at the Paramount* [Geffen] Our Native Daughters: *Songs of Our Native Daughters* [Smithsonian/Folkways] Pink: *Hurts 2B Human* [RCA] The Rails: *Cancel the Sun* [Thirty Tigers] The Regrettes: *Feel Your Feelings Fool!* [Warner Bros.] Homeboy Sandman: *Dusty* [Mello Music] Sir Babygirl: *Crush on You* [Father/Daughter] Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta Pagans: *The Ordovician Era!* [Don Giovanni] Tacocat: *This Mess Is a Place* [Hardly Art] Tartit: *Amankor/The Exile* [Riverboat] *American Tunes: Songs by Paul Simon* [Ace] *Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits* [Dualtone]
*	Alex Chilton: *Songs From Robin Hood Lane* [Bar/None] Ex Hex: *It's Real* [Merge] Gauche: *A People's History of Gauche* [Merge] Girl in Red: *Chapter 2* [World in Red] Girls on Grass: *Dirty Power* [self-released] Griselda: *W.W.C.D.* [Shady] Little Scream: *Speed Queen* [Merge] Gurf Morlix: *Impossible Blue* [Rootball] Pup: *Morbid Stuff* [Little Dipper] Serengeti: *Music From the Graphic Novel Kenny Vs the Dark Web* [Burnco] $ilkmoney: *G.T.F.O.M.D.: There's Not Enough Room for All You Motha Fuckas to Be on It Like This* [DB$B] Bruce Springsteen: *Western Stars* [Columbia] Harry Styles: *Fine Line* [Columbia] The Yawpers: *Human Question* [Bloodshot] Yonic South: *Wild Cobs* [La Tempesta EP]

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